On the job at Tobyhanna: Techs perform electroplating processing

Don Knight, an electroplater at Tobyhanna Army Depot, hoists racks of helmet brackets from an anodize rinse tank using a crane. Branch employees perform electroplating processes for all fabricated items produced at Tobyhanna Army Depot as well as items scheduled for overhaul.

Don Knight, an electroplater at Tobyhanna Army Depot, hoists racks of helmet brackets from an anodize rinse tank using a crane. Branch employees perform electroplating processes for all fabricated items produced at Tobyhanna Army Depot as well as items scheduled for overhaul.

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TOBYHANNA ARMY DEPOT, Pa. ( Feb. 1, 2013) -- Don Knight, an electroplater here, hoists racks of helmet brackets from an anodize rinse tank using a crane. Knight works in the depot's Components Plating Branch, Systems Integration and Support Directorate.

Branch employees perform electroplating processes for all fabricated items produced at Tobyhanna Army Depot as well as items scheduled for overhaul. Processes vary from the submerge plating of alodine and zinc phosphate for items to be painted, and anodizing helmet brackets, to state-of-the-art computerized engraving machines.

The Components Plating Branch consists of two sections, the Plating Shop and the Photo Fabrication Shop. The Plating Shop is a large, modern facility, while the Photo Shop boasts the newest Individual Unique Identification plate-making technology and updated computerized engraving machines.

Tobyhanna Army Depot is the Defense Department's largest center for the repair, overhaul and fabrication of a wide variety of electronics systems and components, from tactical field radios to the ground terminals for the defense satellite communications network. Tobyhanna's missions support all branches of the armed forces.

About 5,400 personnel are employed at Tobyhanna, which is located in the Pocono Mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania.